Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Subtitle: a spoke in the wheel
By: Renate Wind ; translated by John Bowden.
Publisher: W.B. Eerdmans
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 182
Subjects: Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 1906-1945.; Theologians -- Germany -- Biography.
Description: Vividly and concisely written, critical as well as appreciative, and containing material never before published in English, this new biography paints a memorable portrait of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, the great German theologian hanged by the Nazis in 1945. Portraying the complexity of Bonhoeffer's personality and the difficult, lonely course his life took, Wind especially brings out Bonhoeffer's early realization of the horror of Nazi treatment of the Jews, and despite misunderstanding by fellow church members, his brave involvement in the resistance against Hitler, his resolve to become "a spoke in the wheel."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-182).
Translation of: Dem Rad in die Speichen fallen.
First English ed. published 1991 as A spoke in the wheel : a life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, by SCM Press, London.